Heavy nipple discharge from left breast
Hi All,
My sister is diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in Pakistan. At the moment she is on pain killers. she is physically disable and very week so she is not able to get any treatment.
From last two days she is having heavy discharge from her left breast. she have big lump in her breast and discharge is mainly coming from there. please can some one recommend me any pads or type of cloth we could use to keep her dry and clean. before she had nipple discharge but it wasnt too much but now her bandage gets wet plus her clothes, blanket and bed sheet.
I am in UK so if there is anything suitable available here I can buy that and send to her or anything on ebay/online should be ok too.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Kind Regards,
Shaz
Comments
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Shaz - sorry to hear about your sister's discharge. I haven't had the problem, so hopefully someone else will chime in. What about using the pads that are sold for nursing mothers when their breasts leak? Or maybe using sanitary pads made for menstrual flow? I actually used the sanitary pads during all of my surgeries as wound dressings.
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Oops - sorry, I didn't pay attention that this was a Stage IV thread. I appologize.
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MinusTwo, thanks for chiming in !! Great suggestions. We agree with your ideas, and highly suggest that she goes to her doctor(s) and shows them what is going on, if at all possible. Or could a home care nurse/physician come check on her? It sounds as though she may need to see someone. What are her plans on treatment?
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Thank you Moderator and MinusTWo for your reply. We have used sanitary pads and they worked well until last week (end of December 2016) but since last week discharge is heavy from the nipple and from the wound on her breast.
Doctor gave her pain killers and suggested we do dressing on the wound every day and that what we do. We live in a village so my mother does her dressing every day. Nurses are not available and her doctor is in city which is far from village and it is hard to take her to the doctor because she can't travel that far every day.
We have to find solution for this by ourself .. does any one else experienced this problem?
Cheers
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minus two, jill I think gave me this link. I never ended up using sanitarypads and now the lesion bleeds only slightly when I change the dressings. I havn't had a large bleed for a long time and no hemmhorage for months. I quit fooling with it, no q tips, no tweezers, most of the time nothing or only a blot with tissues. I roll up tissues and put them around the lesion under the dressings, over the calendula or what ever to controll the sensations there for a while at least, and can flush the tissues on a change of dressings or somerimes just change them I'm now getting very little candida there, for a while a lot, stopped taking it off, stopped washing it. every day a shallow very hot bath. It's growing, but the bleeding made me weak for a month and I could no longer tollerate that. I;m 80 years old end of may. eat no meat for decades, no dairy for I guess a year, too old and have no time or energy to cook so eat amy's organic vegan bowls. good and bad stuff there. it's changed often during these now nearly 7 years, the weather effects it the most
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Jill aka farmer lucy.......the essential oils are drying as is espom salts, esp organic hemp seed oil (from canada) and probably lavendar oil
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abigail - how about using 'light day panty liners' if you still need some coverage? You can buy the variety that flushes for ease or a quick change. I kept some in my purse for a long time.
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